Sunny and warm. A good day for reacquainting ourselves with the cafés and shops around Belsize Park tube station. Some look familiar, like the organic fruit and vegetable shop. Others, like some of the little restaurants are part of the regular turnover. There’s a small hardware store that may have been there before and a Daunt bookshop that apparently was. The gourmet burger restaurant 🙄 wasn’t. We’re interested in seeing Budgens, part of a small but fairly pricey supermarket chain. Handy for minor purchases when we used to stay nearby.
Has now become Kavanagh’s Budgens, with Kavanagh’s writ much larger. Significantly upscale from its former self and clearly catering to a clientele for whom price is not an important consideration. Plenty of exotic imports, kosher breads, varieties of olives with no price affixed - if you have to ask it’s probably not for you). Oddly enough the wine prices seem quite reasonable, so that could prove handy. No young mums to be seen and the elderly may be in receipt of pensions but don’t look as if the state stipend were important to their survival. (Photo not mine but suspect there would be no objection to the free publicity.)
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